In just four days, more than 900 drug offenders were arrested.
Those who complete the program get into renewed trouble with the law at half the rate of other drug offenders.
By 1995 nearly 70 percent of Federal inmates will be drug offenders.
It costs more than $715 million per year to house drug offenders in state prisons.
Most are thieves and drug offenders 18 to 21 years old.
Among his major complaints is that most of those in the program are drug offenders.
In 1986, there were 535 drug offenders, or 24 percent of the population.
A big reason is that so many of the new inmates are drug offenders.
The series provides drug offenders an alternative to prison and one last shot.
In 1980, 11 percent of the people sent to prison were drug offenders.